Word: partnership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer...
...succeed Mr. Hughes as a citizen board member, Charles Augustus Stone was chosen. Tall and spare and resolute, Mr. Stone is chairman of the board of Stone & Webster, Inc., which began as a humble partnership between himself and a Harvard classmate (TIME, July 8). Their engineers have constructed central plants which today supply one-sixth of all U. S. citizens with power and light. Under them also have risen great factories, hotels, schools, Army camps. In addition to their buildings, Stone & Webster, Inc. own and operate public utility services throughout the lands. Among the companies which they manage, in which...
Wages and salaries $10,263,317,251 36.01 Business 3,288,963,184 11.54 Partnership 1,940,274,581 6.81 Profit from sale of real estate, stocks, bonds, etc., other than capital net gain from sale of assets held more than two years 2,943,173,181 10.33 Capital net gain from sale of assets held more than two years 1,843,339,590 6.47 Total 20,279,067,787 71.16 Rents and royalties 1,274,900,549 4.47 Interest and investment income 2,061,471,008 7.23 Interest on government obligations not wholly exempt from...
...contemplation of the countryside. He buys a cottage in a nearby village, intending to use it as a week-end retreat; soon he is spending most of his time there. The life suits him, he is accepted by the villagers, becomes a familiar figure at the pub, goes into partnership with Farmer Kindred. His housekeeper falls in love with him, but he is too busy becoming a farmer to notice it, though he gives her much too much good advice about her worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense...
...Henry Morrison Flagler, who, from supplying grain to a distillery owned by Stephen V. Harkness, had married a Harkness niece and thus become associated with Cleveland's then richest man. Through Mr. Flagler was arranged a Rockefeller-Harkness meeting, from which Rockefeller & Andrews became Rockefeller, Andrews & Flagler, the Flagler partnership representing Harkness capital. On Jan. 10, 1870 was organized the original Standard Oil Company (it was Standard Oil of Ohio then) with John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, and Andrews, Flagler and Harkness as incorporators. These were the "dear associates" of whom Mr. Rockefeller's mirage spoke last week...